posted by
ysobel at 08:19pm on 23/09/2025 under brainweasels galore
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Me: Dear brain, I know my mom is increasingly fucked, but obsessing in circles about what to do about that isn't helpful.
Brain: Okay what if I just dwell on the time in high school when you tried to be captain of the academic decathlon team, and the faculty sponsor gave y'all "practice questions" to work on that, when you got to competition, turned out to have been that year's actual questions, meaning you looked not just like cheaters but incompetent cheaters that didn't even have the intelligence to make it look plausible
Me: In actual fact, that doesn't help...
Brain: Okay what if I just dwell on the time in high school when you tried to be captain of the academic decathlon team, and the faculty sponsor gave y'all "practice questions" to work on that, when you got to competition, turned out to have been that year's actual questions, meaning you looked not just like cheaters but incompetent cheaters that didn't even have the intelligence to make it look plausible
Me: In actual fact, that doesn't help...